27 Apr 2023

Now Available: A Risk Driven Approach to Bitstream Preservation

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation by Paul Wheatley, available now!

A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation explores some of the challenges that must be addressed by a storage architecture designed for long-term digital preservation. It considers the risks faced by content stored over the long-term and concludes with a simple approach to assess and document the risks and mitigating actions put in place to address them.

Paul Wheatley, the DPC’s Head of Research & Practice and author of the Technology Watch Guidance Note says: “Storing digital content, our binary data, without loss is far from the only consideration in achieving long term digital preservation. But as the DPC’s unofficial tag line of “Keep the bits” illustrates, it is a crucial one!”

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